Can you name any of the Principles of Permaculture?

Question

Can you name any Permaculture Principles?

Answer 1

From Introduction to Permaculture, by Bill Mollison & Reny Mia Slay

    *  Relative location.

    * Each element performs many functions.

    * Each important function is supported by many elements.

    * Efficient energy planning: zone, sector and slope.

    * Using biological resources.

    * Cycling of energy, nutrients, resources.

    * Small-scale intensive systems; including plant stacking and time stacking.

    * Accelerating succession and evolution.

    * Diversity; including guilds.

    * Edge effects.

    * Attitudinal principles: everything works both ways, and permaculture is information and imagination-intensive.

From Permaculture, a Designers' Manual, by Bill Mollison:

    *  Work with nature rather than against.

    * The problem is the solution.

    * Make the least change for the greatest possible effect.

    * The yield of a system is theoretically unlimited (or only limited by the imagination and information of the designer).

    * Everything gardens (or modifies its environment).

From Permaculture - Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, by David Holmgren

    *  Observe and interact. “Beauty is in the eye of the  

beholder.”

    * Catch and store energy. “Make hay while the sun shines.”

    * Obtain a yield. “You can't work on an empty stomach.”

    * Use and value renewable resources and services. “ Let nature take its course.”

    * Produce no waste. “Waste not, want not. A stitch in time saves nine.”

    * Design from patterns to details. “Can't see the wood for the trees.”

    * Integrate rather than segregate. “Many hands make light work.”

    * Use small and slow solutions. “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

    * Use and value diversity. “Don't put all your eggs in one basket.”

    * Use edges and value the marginal. “Don't think you are on the right track just because it is a well-beaten path.”

    * Creatively use and respond to change. “Vision is not seeing things as they are but as they will be.”

Answer 2

Conservation - Use only what is needed.

Stacking functions - In permaculture they speak about getting many yields (outputs) from one element (thing) in your system.

Repeating functions - you meet every need in multiple ways.

Reciprocity - Utilize the yields of each element to meet the needs of other elements in the system.

Appropriate scale - What's designed should be on a human scale and doable with the available time, skills, and money that you have

Diversity - you want to create resilience by utilizing many elements.

Give away the surplus - Create systems that are abundant and share the abundance rather than hoarding it for yourself.

Answer 3

From the Designer's manual

1 Work with nature rather than against it

2 The Problem is the Solution

3 Make the Least change for the greatest possible effect

4 The yield of a system is theoretically unlimited

5 Everything gardens

Answer 4

I will do Holmgren's Permaculture Principles

1. Observe and interact

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2. Catch and Store Energy

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3. Obtain a Yield.

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4. Apply self-regulation and accept feedback

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5. Use and value renewable resources and services

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6. Produce no waste

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7. Design from patterns to details

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8. Integrate rather than segregate

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9. Use slow and small solutions

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10. Use and value diversity

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11. Use Edges and value the marginal

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12. Creatively use and respond to change

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